Happy 75th birthday today to Donna Jean Godchaux who was born on 8/22/47. Donna Jean added a soulful flair to the Grateful dead throughout most of the 70s along with then-husband Keith, allowing certain songs (“Music Never Stopped,” “Playing In the Band”) to add a resounding improvisational nuance that defined the band’s most fruitful era. Check out Donna giving Bobby a vocal hand on “The Music Never Stopped” from 4/27/77)
